Prof. Megan Bowman

Fellow

Prof. Megan Bowman is Professor in Law and Founding Director of the Centre for Climate Law and Governance at King’s College London. She is also a Leverhulme Research Fellow, Visiting Professor at Université de Paris-Dauphine, consultant on Paris Agreement implementation, and leads the King’s/United Nations Environment Programme research-impact partnership on Legal Readiness for Climate Finance.  Dr Bowman’s expertise focuses on empirical and transnational analyses of financial and corporate law and regulation in the context of climate change and planetary sustainability. Her first book ‘Banking on Climate Change: How Finance Actors and Transnational Regulatory Regimes are Responding’ (Kluwer 2015) was described as ground-breaking and launched by then Hon. Mr. Justice William Blair of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales. Dr Bowman is a qualified barrister and solicitor of the High Court of Australia and Supreme Court of Victoria with a double degree in Arts/Law (Hons, Monash University), an LLM in International Law (McGill) and a PhD in regulatory theory (ANU).